Music video script template
- 1. Music Video Script Instructions On the following page is a blank table in script format. The rows number themselves automatically, so you can insert or delete rows as the project requires by selecting a row or rows then right-clicking within the selection and clicking on “insert rows or “delete rows”. You can also move rows by dragging The Video column is for descriptions of visuals and should include camera directions, transition descriptions and anything else visually important. You can also insert graphics to better illustrate or storyboard the script. The Audio column is for narration, and music and audio f/x descriptions and direction. The narration should be clearly distinguished from the audio notes (usually the narration in each scene begins with NARR: and the other audio notes are in parentheses or italics, or a different color). The point is to make the narration easy enough to spot that the narration can be read without requiring the reader to search through confusing text. The Audio column is also set to 1.5 spacing – this leaves room for notes. Save this document under a new name and delete these first three pages to create a script using our template.
- 2. Music Video Script Video Title: Back To Black VIDEO AUDIO LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX 1. (0:00 – 0:30) Shows Devon drinking wine straight from the bottle and dissolves out to a shot of her walking up to the canal. It then dissolves to a shot of birds flying away. The narrative then goes back to the start of the relationship showing happier times by dissolving to a shot of Devon and Daniel (the couple) being happy together and laughing. Amy Winehouse – Back To Black. Intro music for 15 seconds “He left no time to regret, kept his dick wet with his same old safe bet” 2. (0:31 – 1:00) After portraying the couple to be happy and laughing together the camera then focuses on Devon’s face while she lights a cigarette and smokes it which symbolizes how everything may not be as happy as it seems. The shot then dissolves to a medium shot of her and her friend hugging which again shows to the audience a deeper darkness to the relationship is beginning to show. It again then dissolves back to a shot of Devon smoking again then when the lyric “you go back to what you knew” the shot dissolves to show Daniel sat in a pub with friends without Devon. A close up and extreme close up of Devon’s eyes is then shown to portray her emotions to the audience. The shot then again dissolves to a medium shot of Devon looking away into the distance which could show the audience she is pondering on what to do with her life/relationship. Amy Winehouse – Back To Black. “Me and my head high and my tears dry get on without my guy. You went back to what you knew so far removed from all that we went through”
- 3. Music Video Script VIDEO AUDIO LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX 3. (1:01 – 1:30) A shot Devon looking out on the canal shows a boat going by which symbolizes everyone else’s lives going on and continuing whilst she is stuck in the situation she’s in and cannot move forward. A shot of a match being lit is then shown with a quick cut to a lit candle which symbolizes their relationship.The shot is then quickly cut back to the match and it is being blown out which portrays to the audience the end of Devon and Daniel’s relationship. The video then shows a clip of Devon sat with all her friends yet has her hood up separating herself from the group and is smoking again. It then fades to black and comes back with a medium shot of Devon miming along with the song. “And I tread a troubled track. My odds are stacked ,I'll go back to black. We only said goodbye with words, I died a hundred times. You go back to her and I go back to…” 4. (1:31 – 2:00) The shot then fades to black again and comes back as an extreme close up of Devon still singing. A medium shot is shown of Devon sat alone in a blank room which symbolizes Devon’s thoughts and conscience and shows her sat alone in a corner of the room sobbing into her hands and then again throwing stuff around and ripping down things off the walls. It then dissolves to a long shot of Devon walking back and forward nervously scratching her arm as though she is anxious and nervous and grabbing her head again. “I go back to us. I love you much. It's not enough. You love blow and I love puff, and life is like a pipe and I'm a tiny” 5. (2:01 – 2:30)The shot then continues with a shot of Devon’s “conscience” throwing stuff around again to release her anger. It then cuts to show the word “LOVE” being spelt out which portrays to the audience that this is what’s on her mind and what’s causing all of her emotions to be how they are.A medium shot is then shown of Devon sat watching Daniel speak to another girl and keeps cutting back to Devon’s facial expression as the closer Daniel and the other girl gets the more annoyed Devon becomes. “penny rolling up the walls inside. We only said goodbye with words I died a hundred times. You go back to her and I go back to… We only said goodbye with wordsI died a hundred”
- 4. Music Video Script VIDEO AUDIO LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX 6. (2:31 – 3:00) A long shot of Devon sat in the corner of the room with her head in her hands crying is then shown which dissolved out to a shot of the horse riders walking down along the river bank away from the camera “times. You go back to her and I go back to black, black, black, black” 7. (3:01 – 3:30) Shot of horse riders walking down along the river bank away from the camera continued which then cuts to a shot of the sun setting behind the railway bridge. The shot then cuts again to a medium shot of the back of Devon and she is shaking her head, it then again cuts to a close up of her eyes as she looks away from the camera. The scene it then cut back to the candle which is shown earlier in the video, it is blown out which symbolizes the end of the relationship. It then cuts to a shot of Devon with her friends beginning to smile and be happy again. “black, black, black, I go back toI go back to… We only said good-bye with words I died a hundred times” 8. (3:31 – 4:00) Shots are then shown again of Devon’s conscience playing, smiling, laughing and genuinely being happy. It then fades to black to a shot of “DEVON” being written which will be the last shots the audience see and will stick in their mind. “You go back to her and I go back to… We only said goodbye with words, I died a hundred times. You go back to her and I go back to black” 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
- 5. Music Video Script VIDEO AUDIO LYRICS / NARRATION / MUSIC / FX 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30.